SIALKOT: Customs Intelligence and Investigation Gujranwala region team recovered smuggled Iranian black tea and nylon rope worth Rs 100.000 from a van on GT Road near Wazirabad.
Sources told Customs Today that Deputy Director Customs Intelligence and Investigation Zainab Mehmood received information that a huge quantity of Iranian origin black tea and nylon rope are being smuggled.
She constituted a team comprising Superintendent Muhammad Rauf Faooqi and Deputy Superintendent Muhammad Yousaf which also include constables Sajid Raza, Mubashir and Boota. The team started checking vehicles on GT Road.
The team intercepted a van bearing registration number RIP-06-8821 which was coming to Rawalpindi and heading towards Sialkot. During checking, Customs Intelligence team recovered huge quantity of Indian black tea and nylon rope. The team asked driver Raja Naeem about booking documents of said items but the driver was failed to produce any legal documents of loaded item. During initial documents the driver told that these goods were loaded from Sawan Camp Rawalpindi.
The team confiscated said smuggled items and shifted in the store of department whereas the team released driver after proper interrogation. The Customs Intelligence team after registering a case of smuggling started further interrogations.
